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What is the ancient alphabet?

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First you would need to specificy which old alphabet you are referring to. If you are referring to the English alphabet, it was borrowed from Latin around the 8th or 9th Century CE.

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Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Phoenician are all ancient alphabets.

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